Early life

Rao was born in Bangalore, India to N. R. Rama Rao, a sitarist. Like his father, N. R. Rama Rao, Shubhendra Rao is a disciple of the sitarist Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...

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Career

In addition to solo performances, Rao also performs as a duo with his wife, the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 Saskia Rao-de Haas

Saskia Rao-de Haas

Saskia Rao-de Haas is a Dutch cellist based in Delhi, India. She is the first performer to adapt the cello to the performance of North Indian classical music and uses a specially constructed cello, the Indian Cello made by violinbuilder Eduard van Tongeren for this purpose, with five playing...

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He performed at the Dover Lane music festival

Dover Lane music festival

The Dover Lane Music Festival or The Dover Lane Music Conference is an annual Indian classical music festival held in the month of January at Nazrul Mancha, an open-air auditorium in south Kolkata...

in 2009. He has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, and many Asian nations.

External links

• Shubhendra Rao official site